sternwheeler ou mieux bateau fluvial a aubes,,,

Morning Mimile.......

I have been a member of the UK based Paddleducks WEB group for 20 years

.....yes..dedicated to model paddle wheelers.......you may find it interesting

http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/

Derek

Hi Derek!
Just made a rapid overview in the Paddleduck site. very very interesting..will return to register and see more closely. I am mainly interested by steam machine and boilers.
When I was a kid I had the previlege to  live in a french company with 5 sugar cane plants. Me and 3 others, had the habit  late Sunday PM to see the plant attendants firing all the locomotives wich had to be ready for the Sunday early morning journey . At 5 pm there  were already sufficient steam to move these machines some meters fore and aft ,,,all we had to do was to release the brakes, open the main steam valve,,,and oh glory! that was the best moments . I also remember my father touring me one a week in the plant  where I spent hours observing the big Corliss machines...(made in France  by Five-Lille. Some  locomotives came from Belgium,,and some from US  ( Baldwin)..As far as I remember, there were 12 locomotives, one being a noisy electro-diesel Davenport.

Mimile....I too favour steam and paddle.........here is my multinational build with a Saito Y2DR steam horizontal twin paddle engine ....

Derek

Just reading back in your thread and your comment of ~~2kg for a steam plant sounds a little optimistic.......my steam plant without water or gas is ~~ 5.5 kg

I believe the vessel + steam plant will be in the order of  12kg....which will be backbreaking
.....but I progress slowly

Very nice machine! do you have the " correct " base ( i.e boat) for this marvel?
A little correction: your comment about 2 kg being the total weight for the steam plant for my paddleboat is not quite I stated...I said that total boat weight being 2.8 kg, and considering that it displaces 6 liters of water when put on her correct floating lines ( pushing the boat down), we have the diference as a floating  reserve. So that the steam plant may weight maximum 3.2 kg.
The alcohol fired boiler is small as the machine ( 8 mm diameter pistons).
I will try  to send here the plans.

my other steam boat is equipped with a Stuart D10,,,with coal fired boiler it weights 4,8 kg..the equiped boat 14.5 kg

Chaudière, D10, pompe, ... quelles belles mécaniques !
La mise en pression doit être bien moins simple qu'avec une torche à gaz.

Bonjour Braibant!!
qui , effectivement j en ai bavé,,,,,20 min a se salir au charbon pour 15 min d autonomie,,mais apres une demi douzaines de sorties ( j´ai mon lac particulier  hehe) j ai mis au  point la méthode: un morceau de chiffon imbibé de white spirit, des brindilles, puis un petit tapis de charbon de bois,,,une fois 4 bar atteints, je tapisse le fond avec du vrai charbon, avec  des feuiles mortes pour avoir bcp de fumée..( pas écolo, je sais) et  c est parti pour les photos.

La chaloupe navigue tres rarement..mon alibi ( petit fils) habitant a Rio,,pas la porte d`à coté

Now that D10 + mechanical lubricator+ water feed pump + is the condenser real and functioning? a beautiful sight in an open boat.........is this boat 1:16 scale?

[smoke from any burnings is spectacular ]

20 minutes work for 15 minutes pleasure is still a good ratio

Derek
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PS...here is the hull, but now under major modification to change the scale from 1:24 to 1:16, and drop  the steam plant into an open hull....plus the engine will have an additional 1:4.8 chain reduction to the new paddle shaft/axis

These intended changes in scale are bought about by the thinking that to have a steam plant such as your D10, then hide it beneath a deck and out of sight is criminal to the viewing lovers of steam

Derek, I love the concealed servo,,,

The feed and oil pumps are funtional. Except the condenser..in fact it is a "water pre-heater" before the water pump...
Scale is 1:7 / 1.350 mm long ( yes,,weird number, but I made the boat according to the bulky steam installation and weight).

Nice machine  construction !  I will be a beautiful   side paddle wheel boat.
We may finish both our boats in the same time...!! ?? Pity that althought we are quite in the same latitudes there is a lot o water between our boats...

I like the neat pipe bendings and the heat isolation,,,( we often see  a wormlike bunch of manually bend copper pipes , wich is rather sad..)

c'est amusant ce sujet occupe
un belge: Braibant
un Australien :Dereck
un brésilien :Mimile
et tout ça sur un forum français

vos maquettes sont bien belles , des chef d'oeuvre c'est un français qui vous le dit

ben voyons,,,rien de plus international que des félés...
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toute petite correction qd meme...suis français résident au Bresil

J aime bcp ce forum, Gazou,,,

merci pour les compliments Gazou...d autant plus qu´ils traversent les océans. Car s il faut attendre ceux de sa famille... un olibrius ( pas de la famille, heureusement)  m´ a fait l affront de me dire que ce que nous faisons,c est  de " l´ art de l inutile""....

Et tous portent haut le pavillon de la décennie 40 ...

parce qu'il existe de l'art "utile " ?
C'est vrai qu'il existe de très belles passoires à nouilles......

C est vrai!! Si le beau est apprécié, c est sa premiere utilité, En plus , si  l ´objet en question a une fonction utile,,,j aime les beaux marteaux, les belles pinces,,,la belle bassinoire a charbon que nos grand meres employaient pour chauffer les lits, les fers a repasser en fonte, les fers a repasser electroniques qui vaporisent en meme temps..
la tondeuse a gazon avec gps...

BONJOUR À TOUS..
J ai dû m`absenter ces dernieres semaines: probleme de tuyaux bouchés dans ma pompe à combustible ..l´IRM  montré que ce nest pas opérable , donc repos absolu....pas  d´alcool, pas conduire, pas faire des galipettes..., pas boire,,pendant au moins 2 mois...Heureusement , je peux me consoler en vous lisant....
Mais,,, attention!! j ai toujours la ferme a intention de finir mon "sternwheeler"...dès que le toubib donnera son feu vert ..
à+ à tous
Mimile

Bonne fin d'aprem puis que l'horloge mondiale me signale être chez toi 16h45
Je console mes problèmes de lombaires et de difficultés de mouvement en te lisant
Partage l'abstinence aussi par nécessité médicamenteuse
T'adresse le plus cordial bonjour et te souhaite bonne et prompte récup

MERCI BRAIBANT!!!!